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Bemuses retreat. Lines ad defied to a beautiful young Lady, a tvho had been a long time abjent on the con | t/nent. IHE morn was bright—the temped o’er, The breeze blew lightly off (he iliorc, V> lien Ca rclin£| her lily hand Wav’d 2', (he left her native land, Still with a tearful gaze, I mark, Far ol? the beauty freighted bark, Where mcitii'g from my aching view She proudly rider the billows blue. Now dtad appear:, eath well known feene, The gkffy biook, the meadow green, The daify’d lawn, the upland swell, The (helt’ring tave, the mossy well ; The rose hath loft her bluftiing bioom, I The lily ihed her foft perfume ; .And every shrub that decks the grove, , But tell* me of my ablent love, Unheeded now the woodman’s song, Ethoec the russet wilds among} on (hej h' rJ, tenant of the plain, Now (ills for me his flute in vain ; Aye, heav’n ward may the ikylark float, And scatter wide the mellow note; The wien may pipe his merry lay, Petch’J, vKtvhf , on the leafy spray. I Oft, gentle maid, my guidclcfs feet l’ace round at eve thy lav’rite feat; Where late, the lily Iccnted gale Would love to ieiter, arid inhale ■ The fwcets, that with a wifliful care, Thine infant hand had planted there j But now the thiftk’s armour’d head Usurps the vi’Jet’s lowly bed. • Can Mem’ry fail, my love, to trace Yon lake’s cloud pictur'd, wavelefs face, Where ott, along it; wifi .wy ihore, For thee I’ve urg’d the plaihing oar? Then was this atm with vig<ur strung; No for row o’er this forehead hung; And then thy fuft ben gnant smile, I j Could charm aw’ay (he thought ol toil. | ( Yon oak, whose litmmer foliag’d arms, Have (helier’d oft thy fairy charms; Whete, iltetth’d beneath his ample boughs, I Atfetficn urg’d her pious vows; . Now in hit sombre mantle dreft, I ( And i obb’d of Spring’s umbrageous vest, I ] Seems the partaker of my gtief, I; And flieds around the wither’d leaf. I 1 Ah, Ca sot ini ! the foil’ring spring I j Shall (’er the oak her vesture fling ; I j Again (hall breathe hT genial power, I t Expand the kaf, und paint the flower; I f The zephyr (hall again unclofe I a The embryo petals of the role; I ‘ But will it wait thee, C.uolin i, To bicfs this heart, forever thine? j I I On Jlealing the body of a young Woman, to be I I anatomized, from St. Peter's Church Yard, I Oxou, 1745. |< For fliame ! lor flume! Oxonians all, And bluth to hear it laid, “ Not pleaf’d to steal the girls alive, But mu ft you steal them dead ? Initiate nature thus direXs, Nor is it strange, I own, That those who love to taste the flelh, Should like to pick the bone. r - ANECDOTES. A gentleman having lent a guinea for I two or three da\s to a person whose pro- j mises he had not much faith in, was very I much furprized to find, that he very punc- I tually kept his word with him; the fame I gentleman sometime after was desirous of borrowing a larger sum. No, (said the other,) you have deceived me once, and 1 am I ufolvtd you jh all not do it a fecund time. i Old Tafwell, the comedian, having a I dispute in the green room with Mrs. Clive, the aXrefc, “ Madam, (fays he,) I have heard of tartars and brimstones, but by G—• I you are the cream ol the one, and the flow- 1 ci of the other.” An Irifli author desired his publiflier to I take lodgings lor him ; the publiflier found .m apartment in St. Paul’s Church Yard, which bethought would perfectly fuithim I Honest Paddy “ desired to know if he had I Jeeu arty thing that would answer, and w here it ?” “ In St Paul’s Church Yard,” (replied the other.) “ Pftuw, (relumed j Teague, what a prettv meflenger vou art to lend on an expedition ; did you ever hear of a man’s going to live in a church yard tilt after Ire was dead.” A gentleman, (peaking of those who _imrr> pretty wives, said, that in fix months • oeamiful woman become uglv to her hulham*; and, w hat was worse, toe COnti beautiful to others. 1 MUSEUM. “ In the morning, behold it was Leah." THIS, as Macbeth fays, infpeXing his crimsoned hand in the play, was “ a sorry fight” to the luckltfs Jacob.—— from the “ blear eyes” of an unexpeXed bride, the gazing patriach could difeern reflected no very charming profpeX of ma trimonial felicity. Without anticipating too form the re flexions, or fancying the chagrin, of the injured Jacob, it' is better to narrate cer tain of his youthful bargains, deferibe his I apprenticelhip, or rather vaflalage to Love, and /ketch a piXure of the sanguine hopes, J and abused credulity of a young man. Jacob, the favourite son of a fond mo ther, is advised by Rebekah, ttrrified at the hatred and menaces of Esau, to flee from the effeXs of fraternal resentment, I and to iurk for a time in tiie obfeurity of I Haran, a remote village, in the east, where I he would not only find the fafe shelter of I solitude, but the still more friendly cover lof a relation's love. Haran was a sweet I andpaftoral country, amidst whose clelici- I ous landscapes he could lose, or at least suspend the recolleXion of domestic mil fortunes. Haran was the abode of Laban, an uncle and a friend. If the terrors of a brother’s vengeance were not loft amid I the glories of nature and the charms of I fvlvan life, they would be mitigated by the | kindness, they might be braved by the strength of a relative and i paftorai chrif tian. Jacob, who had most unjuftifiably defrauded Esau of his father’s benediXion, was fufficiently alarmed for his own fafety to difeern the correXnels of this reasoning. He immediately commences his tour, ar rives at his asylum, “ thfiland of the peo ple of the east,” and finds him felf among a company of shepherd;, busi ed in watering tfleir flocks. This was the very feene for a lo*e and it im mediately octets. Inquiring of this Am ple company with the friendly zeal, or, perhaps, the rude curiosity of a Neweng landman, where they belonged, &c. he is infwered that they know Laban, that he is in heath, and that “ behold Rachel, his daughter, cometh with the flieep.” This fair girl next appears; and, after certain civilities and gallantries of Jacob, which mark the honelty, simplicity and tender ness of undebauched manners and pafto rai times, he informs the damsel, with whom he is fiuldeniy enamoured, of their affinity ; and the youthful admirer of Ra- L hal is announced to the son of Nahor. — Laban haftenstomeet his fugitive nephew, and, with apparent franknefs and cordiali ty, brings him to his house. In a month, Jacob becomes wholly domesticated in this family. At length, this avaricious Jew, in a spirit of speculation, not unworthy of the present age, begins to drive an art ful bargain with his unfufpeXirag inmate. After insidiously hinting that the ties of consanguinity ought not to induce him to a gratuitous lervice. Laban demands his price, and the generous and lovesick Twain, replies “ your daughter.” It must here be noted, that Laban had two daughters, and that there was no small difference in their personal attraXions, for “ Leah was tender eyed, but Rachel was beautiful and well fa voured.” Now, I will not torment my lelf, and puzzle my readers, with the dif ferent and jarring explanation of grave commentators, defining the epithet applied to Leah. From the opposition of the clauses, it is extremely clear that one of the damfds was homely and the other ex quisitely beautiful. Jacob chose like a lover, and conchiXed like a very fond one. He prefers Rachel, and stipulates fora sep tennial servitude as the price of her father’s consent, and her affeXion? : Laban replies in a blunt and ’Squire Weftern style, that it was better that Jacob fhoultl have her than any body e!fe; and the contraX is made. Notwithftancling the extreme length of this period of amorous probation,"to the captivated youth it seemed, in the charming language of the original, but a I tew days, for the love he had to her. A modern lover would have been tired in se ven days, but every vicissitude of fevun years found Jacob’s heart the fame. Os this prolix courtfliip the last day, a dav of jubilee to Love, at length is numbered. Jacob claims his* wife. Laban oftentati- I oufly invites his neighbors, and the wed -1 ding banquet and bridal couch are spread. The knavery of Jacob's unworthy unde I now appears. During tiie gaiety of r.up -1 tial caroulals, when the head of'an ardent I bridegroom would, in some degree, dance I to the bounding of his heart, and in the I obfeurity of noXurnal hours, a furreptiti- I ous consort is treacheroufiv conveved to I his apartment. The dawn reveals the I 1 heat to insulted fondnels ; for, in the 1 morning—behold it was Leah. ‘‘ \e, w o listen with credulity to the I whispers of Fancy, and perfue with eager - I nets the phantoms of hope," learn to I vour guard against the cheating Laban’s I of life, and re'v not too implicitly on the I expcXation of clasping the Rachel of vour • I J°>' s - know not what a night, and the j cunuing craftinefs cl ntau, may bring forth. Seme unlucky accident may rush between you and expected Btifs. Think not, good easy men, when ye sleep and dream of delight, that the powers of De ception are nodding too. No; they are broad awake, and, perhaps, maliciously active. See, they are already busy detai. ning your Rachel, and, in the morning, ye mufl be doomed to disappointment, and perceive nothing but a Leah lor your con solation. Thwarted passion is always like a dart through the liver. But disappointments in love are like a whole quiver. They terribly lacerate the feeling heart. Os all ths fufferers in this way, the hapltfs Jacob I think was the greatest. Violently ena moured with a lovely shepherdess, he has not only to obtain the “ flow leave” of a timid virgin, but mufl toil for the tardy and remote consent of a miserly fire. To this irksome and ignominious exaction Ja cob submits. He “ fed the flieep, and penned the fold,” and bartered severe la bour for the smiles of love. He at length refls from the toil of years, and is defraud ed of the beauteous premium. ' We all know, from the context, how well Jac ob behaved under this flinging dis appointment. After a concise, but point ed remonstrance to his uncle, he calms the , tumult of desire, and for the love of his beirothed, promises Laban to set out, like the fliepherd swain of Lycidas, “ To-morrow to frefill fields and pafiures new.” This is an excellent moral to be drawn from the story ; and, if among my readers any of the more ardent and unfufpicious futfer from a Laban, and love like Jacob, let them copy the resignation of a patient man, and wait seven years longer for gra tification, rather than be enraged, or de jected for a month, or even a day. The LAY PREACHER. Brief Character of POPE, asa Trans lator of HOMER. FROM the time in which it firft ap peared, “ that poetical wonder,” as it has not improperly been called, the trans lation of the Iliad by Pope, has been in pofltflion of the public regard; and it seems to be loosing no portion of it’s po pularity as it proceeds further on its paflage to futureages. Though its bright and pre eminent merits have united avast majority of fuffrages in its favour, a few diflenting voices have been heard to jar in the crowd, and to detract from the unanimity of the applause. When the firft tumult of admi ration, excited by its proud display of po etic power, had in some mealure subsided, it was represented by the indignant scholar a9 unfaithful in it’s tranfeript, and as conveying to the English reader an imper fe£! or a falfe idea of the venerable father of Grecian poetry. With that infufeep tible firmnefs of rigorous criticism, which is proof against the most controlling fafei nation of poetry, our great translator has been arraigned, and like a criminal dragged tojuftice for every coarseness which he lias artfully veiled; every simplicity, which he has converted into elegance ; every unau thorized epithet or allusion, which his glow ing and pifturefque fancy has supplied ; every grace and beauty, in short, which, while they adorn the English, cannot dif timftly be traced in their flow from the Grecian Iliad. The attack has been re peated at different periods, but,alway with out effeft; “ Arma Dei ad vulcania ventum Mortalis mucro glacies ceu futiks i£lu Diffiluit.” and though an attempt has been made in the present day to support this attack by a more perfect and //owozV exhibition, in our language, of the mighty ancient, the result has still been unfavorable to the expefta tipns of the adventurer ; and has only in volved the poetic competitor of Pope in the fame condemnation of neglect with his critic. Firm in their attachment to their old favorite, and feafting on the lux uries of his page, the public have refufed to quarrel with what pieafes them ; or to accept of a treat, more correctly, it mufl be confefied, after the Grecian model, but not so accommodated to their palates. Neither can their taste in this instance be questioned, without hesitation or risk. If the Iliad of Pope be not defenfible as an exa& copy of that of Horner, the Engliih poem mufl be acknowledged on the whole to be an adequate representative of the Gre cian. The resemblance, indeed, of his original is presented to us by our translator, not as reflected in a mirror, with every mole, and wrinkle, and gray hair, made obvious to the eye ; but as existing in a mafterlv portrait, which, painted on the grand principle of ideal conception, and rejecting from it's draught the minuter lines and peculiarities of the face, is illus triously authentic with the great stamp of countenance and character. In this trans lation. we behold one poet maintaining an j iatercourle of affluence with another; gaining and yielding profit by a barter of rare commodities ; and so conducting the traffic as to leave the ballance, on the final adjustment of the account, in a state of doubtful equality. Messrs. 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